‘Specialty hospital may have saved Popo’s life’ - Resident
Chesney Stoddard, a guest host on the EGM show aired last week said a conversation with other persons in the Virgin Gorda Community led to the question, “Where is the specialty hospital that they’ve been asking for [for] donkey years?”
52 year old Augustin Popo, a national of St Lucia, met his death after suffering an injury to the throat while using a bladed grinder at a construction site in the Coppermine area on Virgin Gorda on March 20, 2014.
He was immediately transported to the Iris O’Neal Clinic afterwards, but attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful according to a Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) press release.
Popo’s death, Stoddard added, could have been avoided if the requested hospital or alternatively a trauma centre was made available to him following his mishap.
According to Stoddard, concerns about the hospital continue to linger even as another Virgin Gorda Festival has begun on the sister isle. He added that while everyone may see Mr Popo’s death as a tragedy, it is shocking to think that if proper medical care was available, his life might have been saved.
Host of the show, Edmund G. Maduro, said the Territory has now become a choice destination in the tourist industry and this makes such hospitals and clinics that can act in a similar capacity on the sister islands even more necessary.
Maduro said he is disappointed and very concerned that the Territory has not had a specialty hospital put in place in Virgin Gorda as yet.
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They electing the same man for the last 30yrs and he spent most of those years as Chief and Premier, he did nothing. All of a sudden people realize what we need after they themselves help raid the chest. When cash was flush we did bulls..t with it, now we casting blame. All of us are to be blamed because we never call out the real culprits, just hide behind a computer and bash politicians as if we really care. If Government came out tomorrow and said no more bush cutting, no more private trucking, no more garbage collection contracts, no sidewalk painting, no guard rail painting, no petty contracts. Starting 2015, Government will be utilizing their departments to do ALL these works and will save the country over $30mil to go towards needed projects. How many would be in favor? You all will be first to jump up and say "JEESUS CHRIST DEM GON KILL THE POORR MAN".. But no problem if we kill the country. Go take a damn seat. Everybody know what's priority but still letters rolling in to Government from the same people, begging for all sorts of dumb s..t.